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 Each
year the Mandal provides free and subsidized treatment costing Rs.
100 lakhs (US$ 210,000) or roughly 30 percent of the cost of all
treatment. This treatment is central to the Mandal's mission, but
it results in a substantial financial burden. The Mandal is seeking
donations to fund such treatment which ranges from Rs. 5-10,000
(US$ 105-210) for non-surgical patients and from Rs. 10-20,000 (US$
210-420) for surgical patients.
The Mandal's Cancer Awareness, Education and Early Detection Project
has created the need for adequate facilities to treat patients identified
by the project. There is a need to build a corpus fund to finance
treatment for those patients who cannot afford it on their own.
The estimated cost of treating a single cancer patient is Rs. 20,000
(US$ 420).
A Rs. 2 lakh (US $4,200) donation to the corpus would allow the
Hospital to treat two non-surgical patients or one surgical or cancer
patient free of cost each year. Donors will receive an annual report
listing the patients helped through their contributions.
Yes, I would like
to help.
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The
Mandal has had a Bhojan Daata Scheme for some time now. The scheme
operates in two ways: a Rs. 3,500 (US$75) donation ensures that
all the Hospital's in-patients receive one of their meals free of
cost on the day chosen by the donor whose donation is highlighted
by notices placed throughout the Hospital; A Rs.35,000 (US$ 750)
donation provides a free meal on the chosen day every year thereafter.
Each year the donation would be recognized through prominent notices
The
Hospital's state-of-the-art blood bank is named after the late Shri
AD Gorwala, one of India's first ICS officers and a friend and mentor
of the late Dr. HM Patel. Many patients and their families who need
blood are very poor and unable to meet the cost. Because they are
anemic, they are also unable to donate blood. The Mandal has a corpus
fund to meet these costs, which now stands at Rs. 10 lakhs (US$
21,000).